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Overview

Call Number: SC0580

Creator:
Stanford Daily.

Title: Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily records

Dates: 1969-1999

Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Custodial History

Gift of The Stanford Daily, 1999.

Information about Access

None.

Ownership & Copyright

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.

Cite As

[Identification of item], Zurcher v. The Stanford Daily Records (SC0580). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Historical Note

On April 12, 1971, Palo Alto police officers obtained a warrant to search the offices of the student newspaper The Stanford
Daily for photographic evidence of the April 9th Stanford University Hospital sit-in, in which property was damaged and nine
officers injured. It was the first known use of a search warrant in an American newspaper office. On May 12, The Daily filed
a law suit against James Zurcher, chief of police, and other officers claiming that the search was in violation of First,
Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The case attracted national attention and became a test of the freedom of the press.
Although lower courts upheld the case it was later reversed by the U. S. Supreme Court.

Scope and Content

These records, created by The Stanford Daily as well as their attorneys (Jerome B. Falk, Jr. and Robert H. Mnookin of the
Howard, Prim, Rice, Nemerovski, Canday & Pollack law firm and Anthony G. Amsterdam of the Stanford Law School), include correspondence,
1971-80; legal documents (depositions, motions, petitions, briefs, and others), 1974-1978; a notebook on the case's oral argument
kept by attorney Jerome B. Falk; transcripts from the trial, 1971-72; and clippings and news articles, 1971-1978. There is
also a trial transcript from an earlier case (testimony of Mark Weinberger in People v. Steven Kessler, Oct. 23, 1969) involving
The Stanford Daily photographers covering a demonstration.

131. Notice of denial of motion of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to argueJan 16, 1978

132. Respondents' Reply to the Brief of the United States as Amicus CuriaeJan 16, 1978

133. Petitioners' Reply to the Brief of the United States as Amicus CuriaeJan 24, 1978

Box 3, Folder 4

Pleadings:

134. U.S. SUPREME COURT OPINION (decidedMay 31, 1978)

135. Petition for Rehearing(June 23, 1978)

136. Motion of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California for Leave
to File Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for Rehearing and Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for Rehearing
(June 23, 1978)